INTERVIEW with

INTERVIEW with
Ayshea Brough
Pop Princess to Beverly Hills Wife and now living in Grantham, T.V’s Ayshea Brough
chats to Lush Life Magazines editor Linsey Robinson
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So Ayshea how does the wife of a Hollywood
Studio president end up in Grantham?
Well about seven years ago my mother Rose, who
used to fly out to LA every year to visit me and
stay for a couple of weeks said she was finding the
journey a bit too long. I was fairly recently divorced
and I had always missed England so I decided
I would close down my interior design business,
pack up my house, four dogs and life and move to
Grantham to be close to my mother.
Was it very difficult to give up the movie
star lifestyle you were used to in Beverly
Hills and come and live in a market town?
Yes, but the difficulty was the difference between the
big city and small town, not the USA and England
for me.
You see I am a city girl born and bred. I was
born in London and I am used to city life but I
an a person who thrives on change and I am
very happy here.
Did you stop working in show business in LA?
No I made two moves and did some TV but my husband Michael Levy was making movies all over the
world and didn’t want me to work anymore so I quit. I started a property development company and an
interior design business but I could leave the rest of the staff to look after the companies and be with
my husband to travel from time to time so it worked out well.
How come you haven’t gone back into TV since returning to England?
I started a property development company and the offers I‘ve had I have just put off. I’m not driven like
I used to be but I’m thinking about it.
Did you do the interior of the house you are in?
Yes it’s a lovely big old Victorian villa that I gutted, restored all the original features that were missing
and added some modern facilities.
So are you settled now?
For now, but who knows......!!!
Look out for Ayshea’s Trends which will be returning in the June issue of Lush Life.
If you want to contact Ayshea please email ayshea@lushlifemagazine.co.uk
www.lushlifemagazine.co.uk
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